In the grand tradition of Sara Donati's Into the Wilderness and Diana Gabaldon's Voyager series, Cheryl Sawyer effortlessly weaves fact and fiction into an epic love story set against the dramatic backdrops of pre-revolutionary France and the American War of Independence. Interweaving the birth of a new nation with the destiny of two outsiders from another world, REBEL is both a passionate love story and a compelling portrait of late 18th-century France and frontier America. The fate of two unlikely lovers has a direct bearing on the events that link the two nations. The brilliant and beautiful Viviane de Chercy is in outright rebellion against the man who is about to snatch away her home, her fortune and her freedom. And Jules, the Comte de Mirandol, has been forced to return from the war in America to the very place where he first knew love, and lost it, years before. Their ideals of liberty are all they have in common. Desperate to escape her fate, Viviane stows away on a ship bound for the New World. Once there she falls hopelessly in love: first with the city of her dreams, Philadelphia; and then, when Jules joins the buckskin-clad Virginian Riflemen at the Battle of Brandywine, another kind of revolution takes place in her heart. Their story plays out against the backdrop of real events in France and America in 1776: France's secret arms deals with Congress, diplomatic conflicts at Versailles, transatlantic intrigue, the campaigns of the continental armies and some of the key battles of the early American Revolution, culminating at Saratoga. The cast of characters includes many great figures of the age: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Benedict Arnold, Daniel Morgan, Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais and the extraordinary Marquis de La Fayette, who was only 19 when he sailed to America against the command of his King and influenced the fate of his own and his adopted country. La Fayette's youthful notions about liberty ended up being as crucial to United States history as those of Thomas Jefferson or George Washington. Jules, torn between his duty in France and loyalty to his American friends, rejoins the Virginian Riflemen and throws himself back into war, but there is no escape from the truth that he is in love with a woman he cannot have. The story reaches its dramatic denouement early in 1778 on the day France signs her epoch-making alliance with the United States of America
Murder at Cirey. Eight Days in spring, 1735. A race against crime. When a handsome young man is shot dead on an estate in the picturesque Champagne region of France, Victor Constant, military policeman, determines to find out why. But no one else, including the local magistrate, seems willing to penetrate the mystery of this brutal death. Alone and against orders, Victor confronts the notorious free-thinker, Voltaire, who found the body. Victor fights to protect the innocent and bring the real killer to justice. A second murder occurs and Victor's task becomes doubly dangerous: unless he can strip bare the conspiracy behind this intricate series of crimes, he stands to lose his military career -- and his life.
Once again Cheryl Sawyer pens a sweeping saga, beginning on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, a far-flung Bonapartist stronghold buffeted by the winds of war... To Sir Gideon Landor, an English prisoner in the French colony, Delphine Dalgleish is as pretty - and as useless - as a porcelain doll, a Parisian trifle who would think nothing of turning him over to the French legion. To Delphine Dalgleish, he is an ice-cold double agent she despises for his treachery. But these two are about to discover how wrong first impressions can be. In the midst of the Peninsular War, Sir Gideon has orders to crack the Grand Paris Cypher, a complex code created for Napoleon. Meanwhile the emperor himself sends Delphine to London on a delicate espionage mission. When Gideon and Delphine confront each other, they manage to defend their dangerous secrets but not their hearts. As passion takes hold, they must decipher their own complex code of love...
From the coral beaches of the Caribbean islands to the colorful streets of New Orleans, this high-seas adventure of passion, intrigue, and war is by a dazzling new talent. The notorious Jean Lafitte comes to raid the home of Lonore Roncival, the daughter of a privateer. Instead, he risks his heart. Original.
Lady Sophia Hamilton hates the French who killed her husband and threatens the peace she craves for England and her family. In a world gone mad with war, the last thing she should do is fall in love with a Frenchman, whose loyalties are a frightening enigma. Original.
If adventure came knocking, would you have the courage to open the door? That was the question Susie had to answer. She was very comfortably established in her hometown routine, semiretired and serene. So it was with some misgivings that she agreed to take a tour around the perimeter of the United States with her husband, Bob. The conveyance? His new dream machine, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar added just for her. With no former riding experience and no little anxiety, she goes along for the ride. She learns a bit about the country, its people, and some very important things about herself. Come along for a virtual ride! But dont get too comfortable, because one day, it might be your door that adventure finds.
Romantic novel set in 18th century Paris. The celebrated and beautiful Marchesina Di Novi has a secret that could destroy her. She risks her future when she falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but is forced into an alliance with another man.
Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: KEEPING COLE’S PROMISE Lucky Numbers by Cheryl Harper Eleven years ago, Cole Ferguson made the biggest mistake of his life, but now he can finally get back on track. The first step? Get a job at the local animal shelter. The second? Stay away from Rebecca Lincoln, who’s beautiful, kind and looking for another charity project. THE RELUCTANT RANCHER Kansas Cowboys by Leigh Riker Logan Hunter isn’t a rancher, but when his grandfather is hurt, he has to step in to temporarily manage the Circle H—after he hires a caregiver. Too bad Blossom Kennedy can’t assume that role. On the run from her abusive ex, Blossom has to take care of herself…and her unborn baby. SHADOW ON THE FELLS Creatures Great and Small by Eleanor Jones In the wild beauty of the Lake District, Chrissie Marsh cares for her flock and trains sheepdogs, as her family has done for generations. Which is why she can’t stand her new neighbor. With his unruly labradoodle and his plans to build tourist cottages, he’s a threat to the land she loves and the traditions that sustain it. THE SENATOR’S DAUGHTER State of the Union by Sophia Sasson A shocking family secret lands Professor Kat Driscoll in the middle of a senator’s race for reelection. Hitting the campaign trail is nothing like lecturing about it, and the campaign manager’s mixed signals aren’t helping. Does Alex want to protect Kat, or use her to sway voters? And when he looks at her that way…is it yet another political tactic, or something else entirely?
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. THE AMISH MIDWIFE'S COURTSHIP Cheryl Williford Tired of her mother's matchmaking, midwife Molly Ziegler asks her family's boarder?Isaac Graber?to fake interest in her. As their pretend courtship turns to real love, can they see past what's make-believe and find real happiness together? THE COWBOY MEETS HIS MATCH Rodeo Heroes Leann Harris Working together to revitalize the local rodeo, Erin Delong never expected stubborn cowboy Sawyer Jensen to be so open to her ideas—or that he'd be the man to get through the barriers around her heart. SMALL-TOWN NANNY Rescue River Lee Tobin McClain Becoming a summer nanny allows teacher Susan Hayashi a chance to financially assist her family. But when she clashes with the little girl's widowed millionaire father, can they reconcile their differences and see they're meant to share a happily-ever-after?
Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. A CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS WEDDING Frontier Bachelors by Regina Scott Nora Underhill needs a husband to fend off her overbearing family, and Simon Wallin wants the farmland he’d earn by marrying her. Their marriage of convenience seems like the perfect bargain…as long as love isn’t part of the deal. COWBOY CREEK CHRISTMAS Cowboy Creek by Cheryl St. John and Sherri Shackelford Children bring couples in a Kansas boomtown together for the holidays in these two stories that show that the best Christmas present of all is a true family. MAIL ORDER MOMMY Boom Town Brides by Christine Johnson Amanda Porter came to town in answer to a mail-order-bride ad placed by Garrett Decker’s children—only to find the groom-to-be didn’t want a wife. Now she’s a housekeeper for the man she hoped to marry, but his children are determined she’ll be their mother by Christmas. THE NEGOTIATED MARRIAGE by Christina Rich The only way Camy Sims can save her land from the railroad threatening to take it is by agreeing to marry a stranger. But can she really trust Duncan Murray with her farm…and her heart?
Say...Have you ever heard that old saying, "There's always work at the Post Office." Yes indeed. This is when all else having failed or you simply were like me...wanting...As you probably are aware of-the good life "Instantly." That's always been my problem: Expecting. I have the "Wants this now" Syndrome. I wanted everybody to love the Lord as I did. I wanted to get married at a young age. I wanted the perfect house in the perfect neighborhood. "Best one of all." I wanted to be a Postal Worker. Majority of half my life, people around me would say: "The Post Office is a good Job." Please. Stop saying that to people. Hey...Hey, wait. Let me rephrase that a bit better. "The United States Government is a wonderful place to start a Career." Even at the Post Office. But before you understand the whys, you have to understand what you're getting yourself into...
Complete with full research reports, critiques, and the innovative online Toolkit, this knowledge-building companion to Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice reinforces the acquisition of basic research skills and enhances students’ ability to confidently conduct, appraise, and critique research studies. Learning exercises emphasize careful reading and critical appraisal; robust appendices deliver fast access to a wide range of nursing research reports; and the timesaving online Toolkit provides best-practice research resources that can be easily adapted to meet individual needs. Crossword Puzzles provide an entertaining and challenging review of key terms and concepts. Study Questions encourage critical thinking and reinforce the most relevant content from each textbook chapter. Application Exercises hone students’ ability to read, comprehend and critique nursing studies most effectively. Full research reports in the robust appendices cover a wide range of endeavors. TheToolkit delivers fast online access to dozens of timesaving, adaptable resources that can be downloaded and customized to meet your specific needs.
This dynamic, engaging guide empowers you to go beyond bar charts and jargon-filled journal articles to bring your research online and present it in a way that highlights and maximises its relevance through social media. Drawing upon a wealth of timely, real-world examples, the authors present a framework for fully incorporating social media within each step of the research process. From visualising available data to tailoring social media to meet your needs, this book explores proactive ways to share cutting edge research. A complete ‘how to’ for communicating research through blogs, podcasts, data visualisations, and video, it teaches you how to use social media to: create and share images, audio, and video in ways that positively impacts your research connect and collaborate with other researchers measure and quantify research communication efforts for funders provide research evidence in innovative digital formats reach wider, more engaged audiences in academia and beyond Through practical advice and actionable strategies, this book shows how to achieve and sustain your research impact through social media.
If adventure came knocking, would you have the courage to open the door? That was the question Susie had to answer. She was very comfortably established in her hometown routine, semiretired and serene. So it was with some misgivings that she agreed to take a tour around the perimeter of the United States with her husband, Bob. The conveyance? His new dream machine, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar added just for her. With no former riding experience and no little anxiety, she goes along for the ride. She learns a bit about the country, its people, and some very important things about herself. Come along for a virtual ride! But dont get too comfortable, because one day, it might be your door that adventure finds.
Now with SAGE Publications, Cheryl Cisero Durwin and Marla Reese-Weber’s EdPsych Modules uses an innovative implementation of case studies and a modular format to address the challenge of effectively connecting theory and research to practice. Each module is a succinct, stand-alone topic that represents every subject found in traditional chapter texts and can be used in any order for maximum flexibility in organizing your course. Each of the book’s eight units of modules begins with a set of four case studies–early childhood, elementary, middle school, and secondary–and ends with “Assess” and “Reflect and Evaluate” questions and activities to encourage comprehension and application of the research and theories presented. The case approach and the extensive pedagogy that support it allows students to constantly see the applications of the theories and research that they are studying in the text.
In 1946 a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (1924–1995) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was African American. The OU law school was an all-white institution in a town where African Americans could work and shop as long as they got out before sundown. But if segregation was entrenched in Norman, so was the determination of black Oklahomans who had survived slavery to stake a claim in the territory. This was the tradition that Ada Lois Sipuel sprang from, a tradition and determination that would sustain her through the slow, tortuous path of litigation to gaining admission to law school. A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education—the first book to tell Fisher’s full story—is at once an inspiring biography and a remarkable chapter in the history of race and civil rights in America. Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley gives us a richly textured picture of the black-and-white world from which Ada Lois Sipuel and her family emerged. Against this Oklahoma background Wattley shows Sipuel (who married Warren Fisher a year before she filed her suit) struggling against a segregated educational system. Her legal battle is situated within the history of civil rights litigation and race-related jurisprudence in the state of Oklahoma and in the nation. Hers was a test case organized by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, as precedent, strike another blow against “separate but equal” public education. Fisher served as both a litigant, with Thurgood Marshall for counsel, and, later, a litigator; both a plaintiff and an advocate for the NAACP; and both a student and, ultimately, a teacher of the very history she had helped to write. In telling Fisher’s story, Wattley also reveals a time and a place undergoing a profound transformation spurred by one courageous woman taking a bold step forward.
Sofia Desalvo enters the witness protection program and transforms herself into English professor Elizabeth Stevens. When two women close to Elizabeth are brutally murdered, small-town sheriff Wilson Drake steps in to solve the mystery and instead falls head over heels for the professor.
Postpartum depression has become a more recognized mental illness over the past decade as a result of education and increased awareness. Traumatic childbirth, however, is still often overlooked, resulting in a scarcity of information for health professionals. This is in spite of up to 34% of new mothers reporting experiencing a traumatic childbirth and prevalence rates rising for high risk mothers, such as those who experience stillbirth or who had very low birth weight infants. This ground-breaking book brings together an academic, a clinician and a birth trauma activist. Each chapter discusses current research, women’s stories, the common themes in the stories and the implications of these for practice, clinical case studies and a clinician’s insights and recommendations for care. Topics covered include: mothers’ perspectives, fathers’ perspectives, the impact on breastfeeding, the impact on subsequent births, PTSD after childbirth and EMDR treatment for PTSD. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals who come into contact with new mothers, providing the most current and accurate information on traumatic childbirth. It also presents mothers’ experiences in a manner that is accessible to women, their partners, and families.
Lady Sophia Hamilton hates the French who killed her husband and threatens the peace she craves for England and her family. In a world gone mad with war, the last thing she should do is fall in love with a Frenchman, whose loyalties are a frightening enigma. Original.
Updated to reflect the latest innovations in research methods, this worldwide bestseller helps students learn how to read and critically appearaise research reports, speak the language of nursing research, and develop an appreciation of research to enhance nursing practice. AJN award-winning authors Denise Polit and Cheryl Beck clearly and concisely present research essentials, dig into the research steps, and explore quantitative and qualitative research to ignite student curiosity and encourage students to pursue a professional pathway that incorporates thoughtful and effective appraisals of evidence.
In May 1891, Joe Quigley embarked on a journey north to try his luck prospecting for gold in Alaska. Although he had been wandering across America since leaving home at 15, this would be the biggest adventure, and the biggest risk, Quigley had ever taken. A project that began as genealogical research into a family's history, this biography traces the life of a fascinating character before, during and after the great Klondike gold rush. Deeply researched, including quotes from Quigley and numerous photographs, this book is more than another tale of the Klondike Gold Rush. It is an intimate look at the inspiring life of a pioneer prospector, who witnessed the exploration and development of one of America's most harsh, beautiful and captivating landscapes.
Art as Biblical Commentary is not just about biblical art but, more importantly, about biblical exegesis and the contributions visual criticism as an exegetical tool can make to biblical exegesis and commentary. Using a range of texts and numerous images, J. Cheryl Exum asks what works of art can teach us about the biblical text. 'Visual criticism' is her term for an approach that addresses this question by focusing on the narrativity of images-reading them as if, like texts, they have a story to tell-and asking what light an image's 'story' can shed on the biblical narrator's story. In Part I, Exum elaborates on her approach and offers a personal testimony to the value of visual criticism. Part 2 examines in detail the story of Hagar in Genesis 16 and 21. Part 3 contains chapters on erotic looking and voyeuristic gazing in the stories of Bathsheba, Susanna, Joseph and Potiphar's wife and the Song of Songs; on the distribution of renown among Jael, Deborah and Barak; on the Bible's notorious women, Eve and Delilah; and on the sacrificed female body in the stories of the Levite's wife (Judges 19) and Mary the mother of Jesus.
This book explores the generative power of vulnerabilities facing individuals who inhabit educational spaces. We argue that vulnerability can be an asset in developing understandings of others, and in interrogating the self. Explorations of vulnerability offer a path to building empathy and creating engaged generosity within a community of dissensus. This kind of self-examination is essential in a selfie society in which democratic participation often devolves into neoliberal silos of discourse and marginalization of others who look, think, and believe differently. By vulnerability we mean the experiences that have the potential to compromise our livelihood, beliefs, values, emotional and mental states, sense of self-worth, and positioning within the Habermasian system/lifeworld as teachers and learners. We can refer to this as microvulnerability—that is, those things humans encounter in daily life that make us aware of the illusion of control. The selfie becomes an analogy for the posturing of a particular self that reinforces how one hopes to be understood by others. What are the vulnerabilities teachers and learners face? And how can we joker, as Norris calls it, the various vulnerabilities that we inherently bring into teaching and learning spaces? In light of the divisive discourses around the politics of Ferguson, Charlie Hebdo, ISIS, Ebola, Surveillance, and Immigration; vulnerability offers an entry way into exhuming the humanity necessary for a participatory democracy that is often hijacked by a selfie mentality.
Orlando is the place for the ultimate family vacation, and The Everything Family Guide to the Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Studios, and Greater Orlando, 5th Edition is the only book you need to have the trip of a lifetime. This completely revised and updated fifth edition highlights the latest changes and additions at all the Orlando parks, from the addition of Captain Jack Sparrow in Walt Disney World's The Pirates of the Caribbean to the latest rides and shows at Universal Studios and Sea World, and more! Author Cheryl Charming, a long-time resident of Orlando, provides an insider's view of the parks and the surrounding area. This jam-packed guide includes a fully updated hotel/motel resource guide, along with rated restaurant listings and a system that rates all the rides, shows, and attractions for each member of your family. You'll find authoritative, up-to-date information on: Area water parks Disney's parks and cruises Sea World and Discovery Cove Universal Studios Orlando Resort Kennedy Space Center Updated for all your vacation needs, this bestselling guide ensures that you and your families will have the most magical trip yet!
Phenomenology is a challenging method for many students to understand and apply. Introduction to Phenomenology: Focus on Methodology breaks down the history, methodology, and application so students can more easily write proposals and conduct phenomenological research. Author Cheryl Tatano Beck draws on her depth of experience in applying and teaching phenomenological methods to distill the method into a single guidebook for students and new researchers alike. This introductory book provides a clearer picture of phenomenology as method and its applications to social, behavioral, and health sciences, covering both interpretive and descriptive phenomenology from research design through analysis. This book is divided into four parts. Part I briefly provides the philosophical underpinnings of descriptive and interpretive (hermeneutic) phenomenology, summarizing the main goals of the original texts. Part II focuses on descriptive phenomenology, while Part III concentrates on interpretive phenomenology. Each type of methodology is covered in its own chapter, with tables comparing the methodologies to one another so readers can better understand the differences and similarities. Part IV addresses evaluating, writing, and teaching phenomenology. Unique chapters on writing a proposal, getting your study published, developing a research program, and preparing to teach phenomenology help complete the cycle of research and help graduate students transition from student to researcher to teacher. Appendices provide study activities for students and examples of two types of phenomenological proposals.
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